It has always therefore been one of my main endeavours as a teacher to persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but is usually much easi

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Three years ago a French teacher named Samuel Paty was killed on his way home from the high school at which he taught because a Muslim was offended by Paty's speech. What has the effect been? Well, t

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